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CGS Section Damages for cutting trees, timber or shrubbery. CGS Section a Damages for encroachment on state, municipal or nonprofit land conservation organization open space land. (See also CGS Section for damage or unauthorized removal of trees under the care and control of the municipal tree warden.) Other Information.

Connecticut Forest and Park Association website includes a summary of recent legislative activity involving trees. LAWS CGS §bars electric and telephone companies from cutting or trimming any tree on a highway or public ground or that hangs over such property without the adjoining property owner's consent. If the company cannot obtain the owner's consent, it can cut or trim the tree with the approval of the town tree warden or DEEP.

Dec 17, Under Connecticut case law, if a tree is growing on one person’s land but its branches or roots encroach on a neighbor’s land, the neighbor can cut off the branches or roots up to the line of his or her land (see McCrann v. Town Planning & Zoning Commission, Conn. 65 ).File Size: KB. The Connecticut Supreme Court has held that cutting a tree on another ' s property without the owner ' s permission creates a cause of action for trespass.

It stated that in cases where trees have “peculiar” value as shade or ornamental trees, damages must be calculated as the reduction in the pecuniary value of the land where the trees are located (Hoyt v. Under Connecticut case law, if a tree is growing on one person ' s land but its branches or roots encroach on a neighbor ' s land, the neighbor can cut off the branches or roots up to the line of his or her land (see McCrann v.

Town Planning & Zoning Commission, Conn. 65 ). By law, an arborist is someone who, for hire, improves the condition of fruit, shade or ornamental trees by feeding, fertilizing, pruning, trimming, or bracing them, by treating cavities, or other methods of improving tree conditions, or protects them from damage from insects or diseases, or cures these conditions by spraying or any other method (CGS § a).